Archive for the ‘1.Rhapsody’ Category
Posted on March 2, 2009 - by Khaled
Launching TwittHero
TwittHero is a new web site that will be publishing weekly face/offs between rock star twitterers along with news and articles about Twitter. From time to time I will try to have an interview with a rock star twitterer. The first face off will be launched in few minutes. Go ahead and visit TwittHero.
Posted on January 20, 2009 - by Khaled
I Love Wildlife
I Love Wild life! Yes I do. And when we love something we try as hard as we can to protect it. Wild life is endangered! This no news for you! Many animal and vegetal species are becoming more and more rare! threatened by anthropological activities. Global warming is a sad truth with fatal effects. I thought why not openly and clearly show -as web designers, developers, programmers, graphic designers…- our support and love to Wild life worldwide? why not display a small graphic on our blogs, web sites to attest this love? to say that we care! That we tr to shut down our computers when we don’t need them! And that we don’t print documents unless it is necessary!
I created some graphics that you can freely post on your blogs and web sites to join this campaign and spread the word. You can also create your own graphics and it will be nice to post the links here in the comments! If you are interested in how I created those graphics then they are mostly based on sxc.hu stock photos with some tweaks and adjustments with Photoshop. For the frogs there’s a tutorial here about how I created them.
I would also like to post a link towards an incredible nature and wild life photography site : http://luislouro.com. Luis Louro is such a great photographer! just browse his galleries and slideshows and you will be truly and genuinely fascinated by the beauty of Wild animals and vegetation. As you probably know too I am also a scientist I had the chance to see many animal and vegetal species in the wild in Africa and Europe and I can only say that such encounters are fascinating and life-changing! Especially african fauna is incredible. Diving allows you to see marvellous things. I hope everyone will have the chance to witness this beauty! And most importantly to preserve it for our children and grandchildren!
If you need other graphics sizes just let me know!
Posted on January 7, 2009 - by Khaled
Donuts!
Donuts… Who doesn’t like them? They are delicious, easy to prepare and you may eat them basically anytime of the day! You can eat them while working etc… There are so many different recipes for doughnuts but one of my favorites is chocolate donuts!
For this recipe (~30 donuts) you will need:
- 1 fresh egg
- 3 ½ cups of flour
- 1 cup of sugar
- 5-7 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup mashed potatoes
- 75-100g of bitter chocolate
- 2/3 cup semi-skimmed milk
- fat for deep frying
Beat egg until they become homogeneous and light and add the sugar and continue beating. Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie (hot water bath) and add it to the sugar eggs mixture. Add the mashed potatoes and the milk.
Add baking powder and salt to the flour and bake till. Wrap the dough in plastic and cool it in the fridge for 2 hours. Then roll it out on a floured surface. Cut with floured doughnut cutter. Fry, turning each donut once, in deep fat at about 350° until the donuts become golden colored. Transfer to paper towels to drain.
You may want to dip it in melted chocolate or even some honey.
That’s it! I hope you will enjoy it!
Posted on January 6, 2009 - by Khaled
WebScienceMan is here!
WebScienceMan is plugged and running
After a few years of running this blog under the name of No Relation, I decided a while ago to Change the name along with a full redesign (which did not happen since almost two years). So now this blog is running under the name of “WebScienceMan”. This change was discretely announced before! Read the about page to have a better idea about the motives.
REVAMPING PROCESS
During this revamping process the CMS was upgraded to WordPress 2.7 (this was very smooth and I really love the new features of this version). I also created a new graphic design that dubbed “The Rainbow Cliff theme”. I’ve laid this graphic over the structure provided by Paper C theme (which was a gift from a friend of mine) after retouching some HTML, CSS, PHP and JS. New Plug-ins were installed among which I will mention:
So you may have understood that from now on there will be polls and surveys carried on so don’t dither to come back, check and vote.
ADVERTISING
From now on you can purchase an advertising spot on WebScienceMan to advertise your products, your services, your site or whatever. Find out the details here.
Posted on December 31, 2008 - by Khaled
Happy new year 2009!
Happy end for 2008! I hope that 2009 will be excellent for all of you and better than 2008. I want also to remind you that changes will occur here soon. So see you next year (that’s merely in few hours from now!) I’d better go now to prepare myself for the dinner out in this new Italian restaurant…
Posted on December 27, 2008 - by Khaled
Revamping, refurbishing and renaming
I decided to revamp and rename my blog. It’s time to do so and to focus a little bit more on it. I will probably be able to have more time to blog more effectively! I will keep writing and posting about the same things I used to. But starting from the beginning of 2009 this blog won’t no longer be called “No relation”! and the CMS will be updated to WordPress 2.7. I will have a new theme too and some more cool stuff!
May be the above graphic will give you some clue about the future directions of this blog! So stay tuned!
And if you have any comments or inputs don’t dither to share them with me!
Posted on December 26, 2008 - by Khaled
Café du Jour: Café Glacé
Un tout petit monde in april 2008, originally uploaded by pirlouiiiit.
As I am a huge fan of coffee and of food in general I decided to start blogging about some recipes that can really be called as geeky recipes. Everyone knows that most of the Graphic / Web designers/ developers are fond of caffeine that keeps them awake during the cold long nights while they are brainstorming, cogitating, designing, drawing, coding, programming, photoshoping, or just stuck out in front of a blank screen searching for inspiration!
I’ll try to share with you my love for the tasty coffee recipes that I come up with or the ones I’ve learned to prepare!
The recipe I am going to blog about today is one among many frozen coffee recipes. I like frozen coffee or café glace even in the winter, that cold sensation travelling down my mouth and esophagus energize me with a boost of stamina! Let alone the taste, the smoothness and… Of course, the caffeine! I like to call this one Vanilla café frappé..
So you are going to need:
- 1 liter of hot strong black nicely roasted coffee
- 4-6 table spoons of Sugar
- 1/8 liter light milk cream (10%)
- 1/4 liter of vanilla cream
- 6-8 ice cubes
Preparation:
Pour the hot coffee in a bowl add the sugar, stir it up and let it cool down. Then transfer it to the blender, add the milk and vanilla creams and mix it till it is homogeneous. Add the ice cubes and mix again with short pulses at first. Once the Ice cubes are crushed we’re done!
Pour in a pitcher and put it in the fridge for an hour or so and don’t forget to stir it up from time to time.
After an hour it is ready! Pour some in your favorite mug/ glass add 3 or 4 ice cubes and drink!
This will be enough for a full day (3 to 4 glasses)…
I hope you will enjoy it !
Posted on December 17, 2008 - by Khaled
From now on you can follow me on twitter! Yep finally I am joining the vibe!
Posted on April 8, 2008 - by Khaled
1on40.com: suspended?
A short time after my first blog post about 1on40 entitled 1on40: does it really get you to be number 1 in google? I am again writing about this “miraculous” SEO service. I tried to check their site today and it was suspended. All I saw was a suspended account from PowWeb hosting. I thought “was it due to illegal activities? was it reported as scam?”… Then few minutes later the 1on40 site came back! so it was probably due to unpaid hosting bill? not very professional in my opinion. Anyway, almost 15 days after I’ve submitted that old site of mine I am not noticing any changes yet. We’re not close to the end of the announced 120 days though…
To be continued…
Posted on March 30, 2008 - by Khaled
Smooth and fast upgrade to WordPress 2.5
Upgrading to the new version of WordPress (2.5) was easy and smooth and without hassles or problems of any kind. I’m also loving the new administration interface and all in all I’m very pleased with it. WordPress is now more flexible customizable and extensible and yet easier to use. The design of the new customizable dashboard is just lovely… In fact this new version was designed by Jeffry Zeldman’s Happy Cog (and of course built by Automattic). Definitely a milestone is reached with this version. Everyday I’m more and more convinced that WordPress is the best blogging option around! At least this is true for me and for many others (did you know that WordPress powers around 0.8% of the whole web?).
More info here.
Posted on August 22, 2007 - by Khaled
I’m Here
Hey guys! This is just to let you know I’m still here… I’ve just came back from summer vacations in Sicily! and that I’m really busy doing a lot of stuff here and there… I hope I’ll start blogging here some time soon… Stay tuned and BTW thanks for everyone who contacted me to ask about my absence…I really appreciated that…
Posted on March 24, 2007 - by Khaled
Promotion to Design Team Advisor at SitePoint
After being a Design team Mentor at SitePoint for the last 9 months I was promoted yesterday to the position of Design Team Advisor.
And of course I have a new shiny badge:
The anouncement thread can be read here.
This is a huge honor for me to be an Advisor in the biggest Web designers and developers community on the net! if you don’t know about SitePoint yet then you’re missing a huge thing! SitePoint has more than 166,790 members from all over the world! If you want to know more about SitePoint then look here.
Posted on December 19, 2006 - by Khaled
BreedSoftware: Beta launch
Today we’re launching our new project called BreedSoftware. The company specializes in developing software and games for the Microsoft Windows platform (not only the desktop Windows platform but also the Windows Mobile platform for Pocket PCs). Currently, BreedSoftware markets various products ranging from website development utilities to intellectual games. BreedSoftware is committed to provide high-performance, and cost effective software products such as text editors, PHP editors as well as high-quality games for our customers.
Visit the website.
Posted on December 7, 2006 - by Khaled
My FireFox Add-ons
I was asked so many times about the add-ons fro Mozilla FireFox I am using. I’ve always given different variable answers due to the fact I was actually shifting from an add-on to another or dropping some they no longer work on the newer Firefox versions (like screengrab for instance). For now I think I have a nice collection of add-ons to use with my Firefox 2.0 installation. So here’s the full list:
| 1. | CSSViewer{1.0.2} | |
| 2. | Codetch{0.4.0.20061026} | |
| 3. | ColorZilla{0.8.3.1} | |
| 4. | Fasterfox{2.0.0} | |
| 5. | FaviconizeTab{0.9.7.1} | |
| 6. | FireFTP{0.94.6} | |
| 7. | Firebug{1.0b2} | |
| 8. | FirefoxExtensionBackupExtensionFEBE{4.0.4} | |
| 9. | FoxyTunes{2.0.4} | |
| 10. | SaveAsImage{1.042} | |
| 11. | TabMixPlus{0.3.5.2} | |
| 12. | TotalValidator{3.3.1} | |
| 13. | WebDeveloper{1.0.2} | |
| 14. | blueorganizer{2.7.1} |
I will update the list once I have some changes in it. See the pic on flickr! Enjoy these great FireFox plug-ins.
Posted on December 6, 2006 - by Khaled
Pink’d!
Well I’ve tweaked the look of the blog’s theme. It is obvious, I’ve added a touch of pink. Pink seems to be a color that’s widely used in the modern Web 2.0ish sites and web applications. So why not a touch of pink in ‘No relation’? Moreover Pink looks nice, trendy and slick with lime green… So I took the plunge and tweaked my CSS and my graphics.
Something else that’s new on ‘No relation’ is that I’ve added a “current project” box to the sidebar, this is powered by the lightbox JS V2. Nifty! Also this we’ll let see what I am working on right now, and for the moment it is BreedSoftware Project. BreedSoftware will hopefully be launched within few days.
I’ve also added a Flickr powered Photo gallery to the blog in which you will find some personal pics, some Photo Manipulations with Photoshop (old Dark Art for the 2003 and 2004 year) and some old Projects that I had the permission to post publicly unlike most of the others.
So that’s all! I hope you like the changes…
Posted on December 5, 2006 - by Khaled
Oh! I look like some celebrities!
Believe it or not I do look like some of most famous persons on earth! it seems that we have some common heritage! It seems like I am a mix of Che Guevara, Megan Ewing, Laureen Hill and Adriana Karembeu… You don’t believe me? you are a click away from the truth just click for (more…)
Posted on December 5, 2006 - by Khaled
Photoshop Tutorials Series
Upon some demand from some friends and users I will start posting some of my old Adobe Photoshop tutorials here on this blog. I will also post new Photoshop tutorials soon. The Old tutorials were already published on Kyscorp, good-tutorials.com and SitePoint forums and many other Photoshop tutorials sites. I am gathering them again here. Most of them are for beginners. Stay tuned guys!
Posted on December 3, 2006 - by Khaled
How The Mozilla Mascot was born?
Today, while browsing the net as usual I’ve stumbled on this article written by the famous illustrator Dave Titus. This article was written back in December 2002 and explains the history of the original mozilla mascot creation since 1994, that green fella dinosaur looks really more friendly than the red Tyrannosaur Rex mascot/icon used today by Mozilla…
Also don’t forget to take a look at the work of Dave Titus here! it is just awesome.
Posted on December 2, 2006 - by Khaled
No relation Blog as a tag graph
Thanks to this little Java Applet , the HTML Graph Applet, devoloped by Sala you can view any website as a tag graph. For instance this is the tag graph for my blog. This a Java Applet so you need to have the Java plug-in installed, also it may take some time to load. Go ahead try it!
Posted on August 14, 2006 - by Khaled
SitePoint’s Official Photo Manipulation Tournament
Today was the big day to launch the SitePoint’s Official Photo Manipulation Tournament.
This will be “a massive, multi-round competition in which entrants will need to show off their photo manipulation skills in order to win fame and prizes.” So you have some talent, join in and show us.
Read the Announcement Thread for more info and details. Take a look at the Entry Thread too, some nice stuff is already there!
The Winner will have a very nice Prize including:
- 1 copy of SP’s Book Build Your Own Website The Right Way With HTML & CSS
- 20 Marketplace credits
- 1 SitePoint T-Shirt
- 1 copy of the brand new SP Book Photoshop Anthology (coming soon!)
So Join SitePoint right now and enter this awesome contest!
Posted on July 13, 2006 - by Khaled
Software Programming Process
This kind of things are more and more commun!
Posted on July 11, 2006 - by Khaled
Faithful Visionary!
Well that’ me! According to Personal DNA test. it seems that my imagination, self-assuredness, and knowledge of the world combine to make me a VISIONARY, and that my trust in others, respect for tradition, and caring nature make me FAITHFUL.
Posted on June 3, 2006 - by Khaled
New Design Team Mentor on Sitepoint.com: Me
Well I am really proud of my new badge:
You can read the thread about this on Sitepoint.com forums here
Posted on May 5, 2006 - by Khaled
CSS Love Song
I hit the URL. It’s like the bowels of hell.
God give me strength. It’s just not my day.
So raise your hands to Boag and pray that we can fix this website today.
Tonight I need your CSS, coding in the darkness.
From now on no more tables nest; you will meet web standards The source code makes me weep.
There’s tables fifteen-deep.
In Netscape 6 it looks like garbage.
The METAs say this turd was made with MS Word.
With every click I find new carnage.
So raise your hands to Boag and pray that we can fix this website today.
Tonight I need your CSS, coding in the darkness.
From now on no more tables nest; you will meet web standards.
I guess I’ll have to start from scratch – then I can kiss this piece of trash goodbye…
Posted on April 20, 2006 - by Khaled
Two new projects
The first one is for a research laboratory on orthopedic biomechanics. They are mainly focused on clinical research rather than fundamental research and their work is directly used to find new healing techniques. This field is quite interesting they consider the human body as a machine and try to treat it that way and it works! The orthopedic biomechanics are getting more importance each day. The site itself will be a PHP/MySQL driven portal designed with a CSS tableless layout of course.
The Second web project is a website for a lasik eye surgery guide. Well this will be an articles Portal site explaining almost everything about this surgery type including a full directory of LASIK surgeons classified by area and with a rating system.
So I have a lot of work to do these days so see you soon then.
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